The code
An optional 5cm × 5cm matte black plaque supplied by Moments by QR. A memorial works without one.
Graves and QR
Graves, QR Memorials and Preserving a Resting Place
A grave records where someone is. It rarely records who they were. This section covers how a QR memorial bridges the two — and, just as importantly, what has to be checked with the burial ground before anything is fitted to a grave.
What is a grave QR memorial?
A grave QR memorial is a scannable code placed at a resting place that opens a digital memorial for the person buried there. The code holds no information itself — it is a link. Everything a visitor reads lives in the memorial behind it.
Two things follow from that. The memorial matters far more than the code; and attaching anything physical to a grave or headstone is a matter for the cemetery or burial authority, not for the company selling the plaque.
The memorial
Biography, Timeline, Gallery, Family Tree, Tribute Book and Grave Location — the record the code points to.
The permission
Whether anything may be fitted at all is decided by the cemetery or burial authority, and rules vary.
Where to go next
QR codes on graves
What a grave code actually does, what a visitor sees when they scan it, and why it is an addition to a headstone rather than a replacement for one — how QR codes on graves work.
Cemetery permission
The question to settle before ordering anything. Rules differ between councils, private grounds and Muslim burial grounds, and there is no universal answer — cemetery rules explained.
Muslim headstones and grave markers
Terminology, what is commonly seen on Muslim grave markers in the UK, and where cemetery rules end and questions for a scholar begin — Islamic headstones in the UK.
QR memorial plaques
The product itself — what a Moments by QR plaque is, what the memorial behind it holds and how the privacy settings work: QR memorials.
Recording where someone is buried
Grave Location is one of the sections of a Moments by QR Memorial Page. It is where a family writes down the details of a grave they already know — the burial ground, and how to find the plot within it — so the knowledge does not sit with one relative.
That is deliberately not the same thing as a grave-search service. Moments by QR does not operate a searchable database of burial records and cannot tell you where someone is buried if the family does not know. It records what the family already has, in the same place as everything else about that person.
For relatives abroad who may only visit once in years, that record is often the most practical part of the whole memorial.
Connecting a resting place with someone's story
A headstone can hold a name, two dates and a short line. Everything else — how they spoke, what they built, who they raised — has always depended on someone being there to tell it.
A memorial is where that is written down while people still remember it; the grave connection, whether a recorded location or an optional plaque, is what makes it reachable from the place families actually stand. For Muslim families with plain, unmarked graves, that gap is usually wider still.
Record the grave. Keep the life.
A Memorial Page holds the life story and the grave details together, with an optional scannable plaque at the resting place once the burial ground has agreed to it.
- Grave Location recorded inside the memorial
- Optional QR plaque — 5cm × 5cm, matte black
- Public, role-controlled, or private and PIN-protected
Fitting anything to a grave or headstone requires the cemetery or burial authority's agreement. Check before ordering.
Keep reading
Cemetery rules explained
Who decides what can be placed on a grave, and what to ask before ordering.
QR codes on graves
How they work, what a scan opens, and what to check first.
QR memorials
The plaque and the memorial behind it.